The County Fair, parts 1 & 2

Via The Haunted Wordsmith's 'Finish the Story #9' The other day, my friend The Haunted Wordsmith wrote part 1 of a story titled "The County Fair" then tagged me with her "Finish the Story" challenge.  I finally had some time today to respond.  Below are Wordsmith's rules for the challenge followed by her part 1 …

The Parrot Flew West Parts 1 & 2

My friend Viola Bleu at Ideas Become Words started a story, "The Parrot Flew West", and challenged me and several other Bloggers to take it and run with it.  I did.  I am including Viola's part 1 here for convenience's sake, but please mosey over and take a look at her lovely, inspiring, creative blog …

Moon Shot

Via Dave Kingsbury's Moon Shot tanka challenge Dave Kingsbury at A Nomad in Cyberspace posted a beautiful, evocative tanka today and challenged followers to add their own "in the hope that . . . the whole thing turns out to be somehow greater than the sum of its parts." Here's Dave's kickstarter tanka: Eyes down …

Steve’s Tale Part 6

A Darla Nyte story My friend Victoria at Raynotbradbury tagged me with her "One Day With a Star" blogger challenge, and my immediate response to its theme meshed perfectly with the chapter of a short story I was working on at the time.  This story, let's call it "Steve's Tale", is itself the continuing sequel …

Steve’s Story, Part 4

I'm availing myself of the penultimate opportunity to participate in WordPress's heretofore unbroken chain of connection and collaboration that is the Daily Post before they yank it out from under us forever.  I already aired my grievances in yesterday's two  posts and have joined Judy Dykstra-Brown's urgent forum seeking to persuade WordPress to change their …

We Created a Beautiful Monster

Thank y'all very much for your love of yesterday's post, "10 Bloggers, 300 Words Each".  That project was way too much fun.  I didn't realize it at the time, but the awesome Bloggers with whom I collaborated and I have apparently created a monster with the fictional Darla Nyte world we developed in that story. …

10 Bloggers, 300 Words Each

Y'all have been waiting patiently, and now this genie's out of the bottle! In March, Em and I had fun collaborating on a short story titled "Sick Day".  We had so much fun, in fact, that we promptly decided to do it again but in a much bigger way.  On March 28th, Em and I …

Call for Collaborators: An Update

Unbeknownst to many but to the eventual delight of all, a powerful creative undercurrent has been churning through a collective consciousness... On March 28th, my friend Em and I simultaneously posted a call for volunteers to help us write a short story.  We decided on a max 3,000-word story to be written by the two …

Call for Collaborators

via Daily Prompt: Quartet At long last, here's the big announcement I've told some of you I'll be making soon! My friend Em and I recently had so much fun with a short story collaboration that we’ve decided to embark upon a similar project, and we want others to join in our fun. Here’s the …

ReBlog Duet Cut & Paste Extravaganza! (Pt. 5)

via Daily Prompt: Noise Word count = 311 / Reading time = 1 minute, 5 seconds plus however much time you spend visiting the linked blog(s). On February 28th, I posted my first-ever piece of flash fiction and, after receiving requests from other Bloggers for a sequel, I invited them to write their own sequels …